Combined window-shade and lace-curtain hanger.



PATENTED MAR. 17, 1908.

P. F. WAGNER.

HADE AND LACE CURTAIN HANGER. APPLICATION FILED MAR. 30, 1907.

COMBINED WINDOW s cases 7F UNITED STATES PETER F. WAGNER, OF GREENSBURG,INDIANA.

COMBINED -WINDOW-SHADE AND LACE-CURTAIN HANGER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented March 17, 1908.

Application filed March 30, 1907. Serial No. 365,487.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, PETER F. WAGNER, a citizen of the United States,residing at Greensburg, in the county of Decatur and State of Indiana,have invented a new and useful Combined \Vindow-Shade and Lace- CurtainHanger, otwhich the following is a specification.

The invention relates to improvements in combined window shade and lacecurtain hangers.

The object of the present invention is to improve the construction ofcombined window shade and lace curtain hangers, and to provide a simple,inexpensive and ellicient one adapted to enable window shades and lacecurtain poles to be applied to windows with greater ease thanheretol'ore, and capable of enabling the window shade supporting meansto be readily adjusted to accommodate window shades of dill'erentwidths, without retacking or similarly fastening the parts at eachadjustment of the same.

With these and other objects in view, the invention consists-in theconstruction and novel combination of parts hereinafter fully described,illustrated in the accompanying drawing, and pointed out in the claimshereto appended; it being understood. that various changes in the form,proportion, size and minor details of construction, within the scope ofthe claims, may be resorted to with out departing from the spirit orsacrificing any of the advantages of the invention.

In the drawingz-l igure 1 is an elevation of a combined window shade andlace curtain hanger, constructed in accordance with this invention andshown applied to a win dow frame. Fig. is a perspective view showing thedevice detached. Fig. 3 is a horizontal sectional view of one side ofthe combined window shade support and lace curtain hanger, the windowshade being re-- moved. Fig. 4 is a vertical sectional view of the same.

Like numerals of reference lesignate corresponding parts in all thefigures of the drawing.

11 designate curtain pole supporting brackets, constructed preferably ofthin [lat metal, and each consisting of an inclined upwardly andoutwardly extending body portion, and an outwardly extending supportingarm 2 of substantially semi-circular form, to provide a seat for one endof a curtain pole 3, which is oft-set from the window frame by theinclination of the body portion of the curtain pole supporting bracket.The lower end of the body portion is bent upon itself to provide asubstantially U-shaped loop or bend i, in which is arranged ahorizontally disposed combined guide and supporting bar 5. The combinedguide and su porting bar 5, which is arranged at each sir e of thewindow frame 6, is constructed of flat metal, and is secured to thewindow frame by means of a screw 7, or other suitable lastening device,which pierces the inner and outer sides of the loop or bend 4 and thebar 5, as clearly illustrated in Figs. 3 and 4 of the drawing. In orderto prevent the bar 5 and the curtain pole supporting bracket fromturning on the screw 7, the outer end of the bar 5 is rearwardly andangularly bent to provide an arm 8, which engages the side edge of thewindow frame, whereby the inner portion of the bar 5 is prevented fromdropping below a horizontal position. The loop or bend l also serves tospace the inner ortion of the combined guide and supportmg bar 5 fromthe window frame, as clearly illustrated in Fig. 3 of the drawing. Thecurtain pole 3 is adapted to receive a lace curtain, or similar drapery,and the curtain pole supporting bracket 1 and the combined guide andsupporting bar, 5 are designed, to be constructed of flat ornamentedmetal, but the flat metal may be enameled in any color, or otherwiseornamented.

The combined guide and supporting bar receive window shade brackets 9and 10, designed to be constructed of nickeled wire, or other suitablematerial and adapted to receive journals 11 and 12 of a roller 13 of awindow shade 14. The wire oi the bracket 9 is centrally coiled to forman eye 15 to receive the round journal 11 oi the window shade, and thewire is then extended from the inner side of the eye to form inwardly orrearwardly diverging shank portions 16. The terminals of the wire arereverscly bent to form flattened or oblong coils or loops 1?, which. arelocated at opposite sides of the shank portions 16, and which receiveone oi the combined guide and supporting bars, and which slidablyconnect the window shade bracket 9 with the same.

The other window shade bracket 10 receives the journal 12, that isconnected with the spring of the shade roller, and the wire of the saidbracket 10 is centrally coiled to form a vertically disposed ellipticaleye 18 for the said journal 12. The wire is then bent to form inwardlydiverging shank portions 19, and the end portions of the wire are coiledor bent to form flattened or oblong loops or coils 20, the terminals 21of which extend between the shank portions 19.

The window shade brackets, when grasped adjacent to the flattened coilsor loops 17 and 20, may be moved freely along the combined guide andsupporting bar, but any lateral pressure exerted at the outer ends ofthe shank portions will operate to cause the loops or coils 17 and 20 tobind against and frictionally engage the combined guide and supportingbars, whereby the window shade brackets are securely retained in theiradjustment.

Sometimes it may be desirable or advantageous to arrange the arm 8 ofthe combined guide and supporting bar at the inner edge of the side ofthe window frame or casing, instead of at the outer edge, as shown inFigs. 1 and 3, and for this purpose each combined guide and supportingbar is provided near its inner end with a perforation 22, adapted toreceive a screw for enabling the curtain pole supporting bracket 1 to beconnected to the combined guide and supporting bar, when the latter isreversed. This will permit the reversal of the combined guide andsupporting bar without changing the position of the curtain polesupporting bracket. The arm 8 may also be provided with a perforation 23for the reception of a screw, or other suitable fastening 'device forsecuring the arm to a window frame or casing. The additional screws, forsecuring the combined guide and supporting bar to a window frame orcasing, are designed to be employed, when greater strength is desired.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new and desireto secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a device of the class described, the combination of a curtain polebracket, a combined guide and supporting bar extending across the saidbracket, a fastening device piercing the bar and the bracket forsecuring the same to a window frame, said bar being provided at itsouter end with a rearwardly extending arm or portion arranged to engagethe side edge of a window frame, whereby the bracket and the bar areprevented from turning on the said fastening device, and a window shadebracket slidable on the inner portion of the combined guide andsupporting bar.

2. In a device of the class described, the combination of a curtain polebracket provided at its lower end with a loop or bend, a

3. In a device of the class described, the

combination with a combined guide and support, of a horizontal windowshade bracket constructed of a single piece of wire bent at anintermediatepoint to form an outer eye and extended inwardly therefromto provide spaced shank portions, the terminals of the wire at the innerends of the shank portions being bent in opposite directions to formtransversely alined terminal loops which extend across the spacebetweenthe shank portions and receive the combined guide and supporting bar.

4. In a device of the class described, the

combination with a combined guide and supporting bar constructed of flatmetal, of an approximately horizontal window shade bracket constructedof wire and consisting of an outer eye, inwardly diverging shanks, andvertical oblong loops located at opposite sides of and extending acrossthe space between the inner ends of the shank portions and arranged tobind against the said bar when the outer portion of the bracket issubjected to lateral pressure.

5. In a device of the class described, the combination of a curtain polebracket, a combined guide and supporting bar extending across the saidbracket, a fastening device piercing the bar and the bracket forsecuring the same to a window frame, said bar being provided at one endwith a rearwardly extending arm or portion to engage the side edge ofthe window frame and being reversible to arrange the said arm at eitherthe inner or outer edge of the said window frame to prevent the bracketand the bar from turning on the said fastening device, and a windowshade bracket slidable on the inner portion. of the combined guide andsupporting bar.

6. In a device of the class described, the combination of a curtain polebracket, a combined guide and supporting bar extending across the saidbracket, a fastening device piercing the bar and the bracket forsecuring the same to a window frame, said bar being provided at itsouter end with a rearwardly extending arm or portion to engage the sideedge of the window frame to prevent the bracket and the bar from turningon the said fastening device, a substantially horizontal Window shadebracket constructed of Wire In testimony, that I claim the foregoing asand conslsting of an outer eye, and inwardly my own, I have heretoathxed my slgnature extending shank portions havlng their lnner 1n thepresence 0l' two Witnesses.

ends arranged at the upper and lower edges PETER F. WVAGNER. of thecombined guide and supporting bar Witnesses: and provided with verticalloops to receive OIIARLEs \Voons,

the said bar. CnAs. Serum.

